Yes, there is a plug in (which doesnt work at nerdfilter nor at the other wordpress site I run) and a savvy person could just make a cron job and redirect RSS requests to a static file, but that's all besides the point. Other RSS generation is guilty of this crime. So if you get 10,000 requests for that RSS, then you're running a script 10,000 times.
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For instance, the GPL blog software Word Press doesnt do ANY cacheing. Sometimes you can't tell if you have the newest file, depending on the web server/config. We were one of the first sites to do this but (as this story suggests) you'll see a lot more sites doing it in the future. Slashdot's RSS traffic, like Boing Boing's, is huge, and blocking broken readers has saved us a ton of bandwidth, which of course means money. It will be customized to your exact specs! then reload the homepage and copy that "rss" link at the very bottom of the page.edit your homepage to include sectional stories you like (and exclude those you don't),.Oh, and if you want to read sectional stories in RSS, then: Įvery complaint about this that I've investigated has turned out to be either a broken RSS reader or an IP that's proxying a ton of traffic (which we usually do make an exception for). I think that's reasonable, don't you? Especially since our FAQ tells you to request a feed only twice an hour. Slashdot blocks your IP from accessing RSS if you access our site more than fifty times in one hour.